February 25, 2021
Hong Kong no longer sees mass protests of the kind that swept the city in 2019, and under a sweepingly repressive national security law, it’s unclear that it will again anytime soon. But the body of knowledge citizens built over months of leaderless and “leaderful” protests lives on.
Now there’s an effort underway to crowdsource an archive of that invaluable know-how as a manual for future protests, before it fades from memory.
The project, dubbed “The HK19 Manual,” is publicly available on Google Docs. In the latest iteration of the #MilkTeaAlliance the solidarity campaign that took shape last year between activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Taiwan the protest manual has already been partially translated into Burmese and widely shared among protesters in Myanmar, who are demonstrating against the Feb. 1 military coup.
And a thoughtful face, so honest; so quiet, pained, and speechless.
Those words were by Juhan Liiv, the most genuine and deeply-rooted embodiment of Estonian pain poetry. May the lines be in remembrance of the years the coronavirus took away from the people of Estonia; of years left unlived. They would have been brimming with wisdom – precious sharing, precious gathering, precious time spent together.
The coronavirus is robbing the Estonian people of a sizeable body of our elders wisdom. And not only that part which is permanent. It has also taken away the hours we now cannot spend sitting face to face with our older relatives and friends, enjoying a simple cup of tea. I have felt the absence of those conversations acutely. Everyday things spoken with wisdom are often a crucial source of support and guidance, even if we do not realize it under ordinary circumstances. We have now.
By Reuters Staff
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VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuanians stood in a 35,000-strong human chain stretching 34 km (21 miles) from central Vilnius to the Belarus border on Sunday to show support for protesters in Belarus and opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who has taken refuge in the country.
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“More than anyone else, you can understand Belarusians, because not so long ago you went through the same as we do now,” Tsikhanouskaya said in a pre-recorded address.
She did not attend due to security concerns, her team said.
Tsikhanouskaya was the main opposition candidate in an Aug. 9 election in which President Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory - a result that opponents say was rigged and that triggered huge protests against him. Minsk’s streets were again packed with protesters on Sunday.
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Most read stories of 2020 on LRT English – from missing conscripts to corona fever
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The filming of the Netflix drama Stranger Things started at the Lukiškės prison in central Vilnius on Friday. / J. Stacevičiaus/LRT
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15. Lithuania confirms first case of coronavirus, to deploy troops in airports
Kicking off the bottom spot is where it all began – the first coronavirus case on February 28. The northern Lithuanian town of Šiauliai and the surrounding region were declared the epicentre of the coronavirus.